What is dry ice blasting?

Answer 1

Dry ice blasting is a revolutionary blasting method that uses small, compact dry ice pellets as the blasting material. The dry ice pellets are accelerated in a jet of compressed air similar to that used in traditional blasting methods.

Dry ice blasting is designed to replace high-pressure hosing and other traditional blasting methods that use materials such as sand, glass and plastic as abrasive agents. In addition, however, a wide range of other cleaning methods that involve the use of hazardous chemicals, solvents, etc., can with advantage be replaced by dry ice blasting.

Answer 2

Nice question. I hope it draws lots of interest because I just recently purchased stock in that business. Since the beginning of sand blasting, we've of course used sand. We recently discovered that Ice could also be used and that it did just as well as sand. Dry ice is used in the process and because of the fact that it can be reclaimed, brings the cost down to the point that it's virtually free to use. Have a great day, Larry.

Answer 3

Class A Misdemeanor in the state of California.

Called a Dry Ice Bomb -- A little water, a little dry ice and a two liter plastic bottle.

Answer 4

It is like sand blasting, but using dry ice instead. Dry ice might be used to avoid heat build up, it is cleaner and might be gentler in some applications.

Answer 5

as a professional dry ice blasting producer, our machine is often used in cleaning tire mould, power plants, printing equipment and food machinery etc. Green cleaning way plus saving time, it is very popular now.

Answer 6

Everyone's got it right. And the clean up is easier that collecting all the sand or glass beads etc. It just sublimes and beomces gaseous CO2.

Answer 7

Ditto all the guys up there. And I made it to Level 3...